And the mountains echoed presentation.pdf

Project related to literature on the topic of mountain echoed.this was the presentation made from the project gist ideas

1. Presentation
By
SumimolC S
II M.A English
Title: And The Mountains Echoed
Author: Khaled Hosseini

3. EXPLORING GENDER ROLES AND
FAMILIAL BOND IN KHALED
HOSSEINI’S AND THE MOUNTAINS
ECHOED

4. Thesis statement
•Isolation affect the people who so close with their loved ones
•(Abdullah, Parwana)
•Afghan Women were suppressed by the society and family even through they are
rich or poor
•Every relationship in novel are so deeply close with eachotherbut the end they be
separated

5. Objectives
•Explain the male dominance and because of that women be suppressed by
them through society and family and on other side the bond between the
relationship end in separation

7. •Chapter one: Introduction
•Chapter two: Alienation
•Chapter three: self sufficient women
•Chapter four:familial bond and separation

8. Introduction
•Afghan American writer
•UNHCR goodwill ambassador and former physician
•work set in Afghanistan and Afghan people culture and suffering
•“The Kite Runner” brought success
•3 novels great success
•Influenced by Poets such as Rumi, Omar Khayyam, Abdul Quadir,Bedil, and Hafez.
•Famous works : The Kite Runner, Thousand splendid suns, And the Mountains Echoed.
•Contemporary writers: Nadia Hashimi, Tamim Ansary, Atia Abawi

9. Alienation
•Mr and Wahdati(affect more isolation than other characters)
•Mr.Wahdati always prefer to be alone (chess, walk silence)
•He is educated than others bcz of that he pushes him to retreat him from the society and culture
•To escape from loneliness and society pressure she forced to adopt
•Her isolation make her commit suicide
•She says “I just wanted to pull the curtains and sleep all day everyday” means she need to escape
from society
•Her father never allow her to write
•Escape from dad she accept marriage

10. •Abdullah, Pari’s lose he fall to isolation
•He physically present but mentally lost and absence
•Fairy tale of Quais and Baba Ayub (Div)
•Timur and Idris alienated bcz of war
•Iqbal step bro of Abdullah move Kabul bcz of war
•Aghan faced both isolation with society and homeland

11. Self sufficient woman
• Hosseini, he fights for the women rights through his work
• Nila, women oppressed in the society
• Modern day women who face struggle in society
• Renaissance period women have no right in property
• Saboor choose to sell Pari bcz she is a girl
• Nila suppressed by her father reason of every women’s silence
• Commander Sahib’s wife live with gangster husband bcz of fear on her husband
• She have no guts to talk to her husband
• Women are just ignorant “ what I wore, where I went, what I said, how I said it,who I said it to”
• Nila is just opposite to every women character in the novel
• Pari raised by strong feminist Nila
• Amra hardest working women in Kabul bcz help war affected patients in Afghanistan
• Nila tortured by her father
• Nila a women in 20
th
century
• She was restricted to go out

12. Familial Bond and Separation
•Family bond is an unique and powerful one
•Duooma
• migration, adoption, health issue (separation)
•Realtionship btw brother, father, sister, mother
•During war somebe separated like Adel and Golam
•Poverty Pari
•Baba Ayub lost his son bcz of his poverty
•Baba and Abdullah story connects bcz both loved one safe but they force to forget
•Parwana was separated to her twin sister Mas9oma

13. Summation
•Faced isolation in both frm homeland and outside
•War, immagration
•Psychological depression and drastic changes in the behaviour of the character
•Familial bond says importance of the relation and bond btw the family members
•Women empowerment through the character of Nila, Pari and commander Sahib’s
wife